Connie Limon, Bead Jewelry Artisan and Writer

Welcome to my blog!

I am a retired secretary from state of Indiana government offices, mother of one daughter, grandmother to two grandsons and first born child to Korean War Veteran, Ralph Stidham

Melissa Dawn Limon, My Angel as a Newborn

Connie and Juan Limon (father of Melissa) January 1973

Ralph Stidham, my father

My Dearest Father

Dad was 16 years old when he enlisted in the Army at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Can you imagine being 16 years old and shipped from place to place for training, then shipped overseas to Korea to fight in one of the most violent wars our world has ever known? He was trained on tanks and spent 13 months on the front lines in Korea as a tanker. He was there in the tanks on the front lines when they signed the peace treaty, or the stop fighting treaty. The tanks was one reason the U.S. overcame so much of the adversities in Korea. Dad was in Korea there the last part of the war. The earlier years of that war he was being trained first one place, then another in the U.S. In this picture he was between the ages of 16 and 18 as those were the years he spent in the Army. I was born in 1956. I do remember about Korea from him in those years. When I watch the You Tube videos of that war, it brings back the memories. I remember wondering what that word, "Korea" meant.